High School Sports

The Panthers golf team finished 12th out of 17 teams in the fourth annual Bulldog Classic Saturday, hosted by John Hardin High School. Head coach Josh Mefford said it was the team’s first tournament of the season, and they were nervous about playing bigger schools. The conditions also were bad, with the weather very hot and the course wet.

Levi Stephenson led the Panthers, shooting an 84. Justin Ray shot a 91, followed by Clint Burgess and Chase Hartman with 97 and Blake Belcher with 98.

The Lady Panthers soccer team lost their season opener Saturday at Villa Madonna, 8-0. “While our first game doesn’t look great in the score book, it did present us with what we need to work on and where we currently are and where we want to be,” head coach Greg Damron said. “I am proud of the girls for sticking with it and not giving up. We will take what we learned and use it to make us better for the next.”

The Panthers soccer team came up just short in their home opener against Shelby County Aug. 21, losing 1-0. Carroll County hung with the visiting Rockets the entire game, except for one brief mental lapse to start the second half. Shelby County took advantage and scored their only goal within the first 50 seconds of the half.

“We lost focus right off the bat in the second half,” head coach Ben Crutcher said. “We didn’t come out with the intensity that we had hoped and they put one on the board real fast in the second half.

Carroll County High School boys soccer finished in second place last weekend in the Calvary Christian tournament. The Panthers lost their first game to Walton-Verona, 3-2, on Monday, Aug. 18, but rebounded with back-to-back wins Friday against Covington Latin, 4-2, and Saturday over host Calvary Christian, 5-1.

Sophomore David Marshall (pictured) scored in all three games, seven goals overall, and was named to the All-Tournament Team. Head coach Ben Crutcher said Marshall really stepped up to lead the team.

Carroll County opened their 2014 season with a hard fought 47-34 win over the visiting Pendleton County Wildcats.

After the game, which wasn’t decided until after the final Pendleton County possession, head coach Mike Weedman told his team that they took a huge step forward. “You are a young team that stepped up in an emotional game,” he said. “… We still have a lot of work to do, and we still have to get a lot better.”